For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, March on Washington

        This series is about the: For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights exhibit on temporary display at the Sioux City Public Museum in downtown Sioux City, Iowa. The exhibit runs through the middle of October 2015.

        The exhibit portrays the struggle for civil rights in the United States from more than one side. Some parts of the exhibit may not be pleasant to view but is important to show all audiences as a method of informing and educating. Some of the photos are graphic and some of the artifacts may be interpreted to symbolize hatred, bigotry and racism but these symbols do not reflect the opinions and attitude of the blog author. It is important to show these things because it is vital to show the success of the modern Civil Rights movement.

March on Washington:

Previous articles in the series:
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Introduction
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Who was Jim Crow?
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Black Out - Whiteness, Safety, and the Cold War
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Ready to Serve: The Mainstream Ideal, A Culture of Stereotypes
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Invisible Man: Relentless Whiteness
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Dawn of Civil Rights: Clowns Servants & Invisible Men
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Protesting Pictures
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Culture of Positive Images
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Where are all the Dolls Like Me?
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Cult of Portraiture
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Need for Hero's
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Broadcasting Race
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Julia
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Sports Hero's
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Variety Format
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Taking Control: Local Black Television
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Taking Control: Rethinking Blackness
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Black Panther Party
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Gordon Parks

For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Images of Everyday Life
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Our Lives Today
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Lynching of Emmett Till
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, A Letter from Birmingham Jail
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Movement
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Documenting Civil Rights
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Sioux City African Americans and the Ku Klux Klan
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Portable Images
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Role of Television News

Iowa Vietnam War Memorial

The Iowa Vietnam War Memorial is similar to the national memorial in Washington, D.C. The Iowa Vietnam Commission and Jaqueline Day from Des Moines were able to raise over $85,000 for the project. Day was the former secretary to Governor Norman Erbe and former receptionist for Governor Robert Ray.

The monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1984. At a separate ceremony on Veterans Day, November 11, 1984 bronze plaques and missing names were added. The monument is located on the Iowa State Capitol Complex in Des Moines and is part of the Monuments and Memorials Tour.

Previous articles in the series:
Allison Monument
American Revolution
Bicentennial Fountain
Bicentennial Time Capsule
Centennial Time Capsule
Christopher Columbus Memorial
Cornerstone
Crocker Memorial
Daniel Cooper Memorial Tree
Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Flagpole
Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Memorial Bench
Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Sundial
Great Seal of Iowa
Japanese Bell and Bell House
Korean War Memorial
Liberty Bell
Lincoln and Tad
Martin Luther King, Jr. Tree
Memorial Bench
Mortar
Parrot Rifle
Peace Pole
Pioneer Statuary Group and Buffalo Head Drinking Fountain
Purple Heart Combat Veterans
Scott's Grave
Sesquicentennial Tree
Shattering Silence
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
Spanish-American War Trophy Cannon
Spanish-American War Monument
Statue of Liberty
Submarine Memorial
V.F.W. Monument